The South African Institute of Foundrymens’ Annual Golf Day took place on Thursday 12th November 2015. The event was held at the Reading Country Club.

The SAIF Council would like to thank the following companies for sponsorship of prizes, tee boxes and greens: Ametex, B&K Castings, Ceramic & Alloy Specialists, Cerefco, Chemsystems, Cobra ISCA, Crawford Publications, Endeco Omega, Foseco South Africa, FP Specialities, Guestro Castings, IMP Scientific, Insimbi Alloy Supplies, JC Impellers CC, Lauds Foundry Equipment, LIL Sales, MCTS, Metal Connection, Mineral Zone, Nicast Foundry, Pentagon Resources, Procor, Rely Intracast, SAIF, SI Group HA, Thos Begbie and VIP Metals.

The competition on the day was fourball alliance with two scores to count on all holes. The closest to the pin prizes on the 5th, 7th, 11th and 15th holes respectively were sponsored by SI Group HA, Chemsystems, Insimbi Alloy Supplies and Cobra ISCA. The longest drive prizes on the 4th and 18th holes respectively, were sponsored by VIP Metals and Pentagon Resources.

Procor Foundry Supplies sponsored the 15th hole and unfortunately nobody won the hole in one competition. However, Procor did raise R5000.00 for the SAIF on the day via a challenge they gave to the participating golfers on the hole they sponsored. Well done to them.

Thos Begbie sponsored the 3rd hole and players had to enter a lucky draw competition by donating R10.00 and a golf ball. R750.00 was raised, and seen drawing the lucky winner was Eugene Rossouw of Thos Begbie, and Janley Kotze the SAIF Vice President. The prize was later auctioned for R1000.00 and thanks to Rudi Pienaar of High Duty Castings for the successful bid.

Another R200.00 was donated in the form of a fine for playing off the ladies tee-box on the 14th hole, and there were no ladies in the team. You know who you are. The SAIF thanks you for the donation.

There were four closest to the pin prizes and the winners were:

5th hole – Sponsored by SI Group HA – Dijon Brink
7th hole – Sponsored by Chemsystems – Twayne Stewart
11th hole – Sponsored by Insimbi Alloy Supplies – Rudi Pienaar
15th hole – Sponsored by Cobra ISCA – Louis Miller

There were two longest drive prizes and the winners were:

4th hole – Sponsored by VIP Metals – Dwayne Barnes
18th hole – Sponsored by Pentagon Resources – Dwayne Barnes

The winners on the day on a score of 99 points were Mark Sims, Arthur Spires, Heinrich Engelbrecht and Louis Dique. Great score for players with handicaps of 17, 19, 27 and 27 respectively. Three of this fourball came in first in 2012.

Coming in second on a score of 98 points were Twayne Steward, Andrew Mc Farlane, Allan Atkinson and Dave Raper. In third place, also on a score of 98 points, were Charles McGeer, Shaun Tredwell, Riaan van Tonder and Louis Miller and in fourth place, also on a score of 98 points, were Alistair Rodgers, Nigel Brain, Matthew Cockcroft and Kevin Grieves.

The longest day prize winners were Justin de Beer, Marius Zwemstra, Erik Zimmermann and Charl Coetzer on a score of 34 points

The longest day prize winners were Justin de Beer, Marius Zwemstra, Erik Zimmermann and Charl Coetzer on a score of 34 points

Closest to the pin winner on the 7th hole, sponsored by Chemsystems, was Twayne Stewart. He is seen collecting his prize from Deon Smit (right), of Chemsysems

Closest to the pin winner on the 11th hole, sponsored by Insimbi Alloy Supplies, was Rudi Pienaar. He is seen collecting his prize from Dudley de Beer (right), of Insimbi Alloy Supplies

Closest to the pin winner on the 15th hole, sponsored by Cobra ISCA, was Louis Miller. He is seen collecting his prize from John Davies (right), CEO of the SAIF

The longest drive winner of the day was Dwayne Barnes. Dwayne had the longest drive on the 4th hole, sponsored by VIP Metals, and on the 18th hole, sponsored by Pentagon Resources. Dwayne is seen collecting his prizes from Naas Grobler (left), of VIP Metals

The winners on the day on a score of 99 points were Louis Dique, Arthur Spires, Mark Sims and Heinrich Engelbreght (absent). They are seen with Rui Dias, third right, who was representing the Dias family, the sponsors of the new SAIF Golf Day trophy, which is known as the Luis Dias Trophy

Coming in second on a score of 98 points were Twayne Steward, Andrew Mc Farlane and Allan Atkinson (absent Dave Raper)

In third place, also on a score of 98 points, were Charles McGeer, Shaun Tredwell, Riaan van Tonder and Louis Miller

In fourth place, also on a score of 98 points, were Alistair Rodgers, Nigel Brain, Matthew Cockcroft and Kevin Grieves

In fifth place on a score of 96 points were Rob van Niekerk, Tulio Coehlo and Neville Sanders (absent Len Sanders)

Thos Begbie sponsored the 3rd hole and players had to enter a lucky draw competition by donating R10.00 and a golf ball. R750.00 was raised, and seen drawing the lucky winner was Eugene Rossouw of Thos Begbie, and Janley Kotze the SAIF Vice President. The prize was later auctioned for R1000.00 and thanks to Rudi Pienaar of High Duty Castings for the successful bid